"Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay."
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"From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped."
"As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it."
"Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are."
"For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"
"I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine."
"You just can't wake up out of bed and think you can figure out a gym. You definitely need some personal training."
"I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch."
"My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold."
"'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again."
"I lay down so hard, I got bed rash"
"Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite me,” I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. “Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed."
"Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head."
"Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain."
"I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep."
"You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears."
"I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears."
"We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there."
"I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them."
"When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration."